 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...refpect from the community, as Johnfon himfelf often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greateft abilities are not only not required for this office, but render a man lefs fit for it. While we acknowledge the juftnefs of Thomfon's beautiful remark, " Delightful tafk... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained1. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required...for this office, but render a man less fit for it. 1 Johnson in more than one passage in his writings seems to have in mind his own days as a schoolmaster.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained'. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required...for this office, but render a man less fit for it. ' Johnson in more than one passage in his writings seems to have in mind his own days as a schoolmaster.... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...comfort both of public and domeftic life. May you long continue to be an ornament to your profeffion— " to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to flioot;"— to infpire the pupils, who are intrufted to your care, with that genuine tafte, which cannot... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's 1736 beautiful remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, " And teach the young idea how... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 504 pages
...can be more pleasant in the theory ? But experience will convince all, who need conviction, that " to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot," is not, at least in a free-school, a very " delightful task." I soon found that my ushership entitled... | |
 | Harriet Corp - English fiction - 1813 - 288 pages
...Miss Jones looked a Sidle eonfused, and Miss Wilson remarked that her favourite poet had ealled it a " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, " And teach the young idea how to shoot!" " Aye, very delightful to those who delight in it," eried Miss Charlotte Jones, " but for iny part... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...office of teaching be far more agreeable, so as to realize, in some degree, what the poet says : " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought And teach the young idea how to shoot ;" but the number of those, who could contribute to the common stock of instruction, would be greatly... | |
 | 1830 - 604 pages
...his own eyes. With what delight did he hehold the growing heauties of his son ! With what pleasure ' Rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot !' With what rapture did he listen to his sprightly sallies, his smart repartees, and those pretty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...render a man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the jnstness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, "And teach... | |
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... and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. 
